by: Laura Ruminski (West Hawaii Today/Hawaii Tribune Herald)

Armed with trash bags, gloves and pickers, about two dozen volunteers took to the streets Friday morning in Kona, cleaning up trash others left behind.

Blue Zones Project partnered with the Lions Club, Queen Liliuokalani Trust and community volunteers to pick up rubbish looping from the mauka side of Queen Kaahumanu Highway from Palani Road north to Makala Boulevard up to Kamakaehu Avenue and back down Palani, creating a clean ring around the area.

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